Lorna's family forest

Surname pages

Those surnames of particular interest where there is a descriptive page about the surname.

Most of the surnames listed here will contain as many of the following as applicable:
Narrative about my interest in the surname concerned.
Charts
Indices of related people included on this site
DNA project links if applicate
Mapped BDM data

Other surnames of interest may be accessed via the Surname Charts page along with the Surname Index containing all surnames for individuals having a page of their own

RUNCI(Wo)MAN This family fascinates me.
Probably primarily because I've been quite successful with it, there's information to be found and there's a heap of still living relations.
As it is a relatively unusual name, it is also a tad easier to trace than some.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

— Terry Pratchett

.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

— Petronius (210 BC)

The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust

So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.